ACC 2024 preview: Breaking down Florida State, Clemson and three new challengers

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Thank goodness actual football is starting soon. No offense to the good folks of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but when lawsuits and countersuits are the primary storyline of your offseason, well, you haven't had a very enjoyable offseason. (I think there's an "Affidavits and Contracts Conference" joke in here somewhere, but I won't make it, even though there's almost nothing Atlantic about this place now.)

Everything about the ACC feels weird right now, from big football programs plotting to leave, to teams from Texas and California joining, to the simple existence of a conference with 17 teams and games like Stanford at Syracuse, Boston College at SMU and Cal at…